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Happy December! 
Is anyone here using Elixir for the 2018 Advent Of Code? I just finished the day 1 challenge and found using a functional language to be a great fit for the problem. You can see my solutions here: https://github.com/connorlay/advent_of_code_2018
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benperiton
In case you haven’t seen: Let’s learn Elixir together on Advent of Code! « Plataformatec Blog
Mine are at https://github.com/benperiton/AOC2018
JEG2
I’m working the problems in Elixir as well: GitHub - JEG2/advent_of_code_2018: https://adventofcode.com/ · GitHub
NobbZ
I started as well with elixir, but this year it is only my secondary language, primary is rust, I might need it for my job next year.
Its a bit sad though, that I can’t find todays livestream on twitch… @josevalim’s last activity seems to be from a week ago
sneako
Looks like the streams will start tomorrow
Check out @josevalim’s Tweet:
https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1068770108124712960?s=09
BrightEyesDavid
Today’s stream postponed by 1 hour.
ryanwinchester
I’m doing it too. Much fun.
It’s also fun watching @josevalim’s videos after.
I have up to Day 3 so far and will add Day 4 later on:
sfusato
This is my first year solving the Advent of Code puzzles.
I usually solve the puzzle first thing in the morning for the previous day, so in the afternoon I can watch José’s approach on his Twitch channel.
sionide21
Here’s mine: GitHub - sionide21/Advent-of-Code-2018 · GitHub
sasajuric
Even though I didn’t plan on doing AoC this year, after solving one task I got hooked
Based on the experience from the past year, I decided to consolidate my solutions into a single mix project. This allowed me to extract some common helper (e.g. Enum helpers), which helped me clean up the code of the actual solutions, and make it a bit more expressive (e.g. see my take on day 1)
michallepicki
Similarily, I am also solving the AoC this year - github. Probably won’t finish again (last year I gave up after a few days
) but maybe my solutions will be of interest to someone.